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Capital Punishment
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Capital Punishment or the Death Penalty is allowed in the state of Louisiana. A person may not be executed while suffering from a mental illness. If a female defendant is found to be preganant, execution is stayed until 90-120 days from end of pregnancy.
The Defintion of Capital Homicide is Murder committed during comission of aggravated kidnapping, burglary, arson, under the age of 12 years or over the age of 65 years, etc. The method of execution is Lethal Injection
Kennedy v. Louisiana Patrick Kennedy was conivcted with the aggravated rape of his then 8-year-stepdaughter and sentenced to death, bu the Eighth Amendment bars Louisiana from imposing the death penalty for the rape of a child where the crime did not result,and was not intended to result, in the victim's death
